Egg-case filler.



No. 662,424. Patented Nov. 27,1900.

w. H. HANS L EGG CASE R (Application le 19000.

(No Modem eight points in the circumference, while in WILLIAM HENRYHANSELL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

EGG-CASE FILLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,424. dated November27, 1900.

Application filed June 21, 1900.

T0 cir/ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAMHENRY HAN- SELL, of the city and county ofPhiladelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented anImprovementin Egg-Case Fillers, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention has reference to egg-case fillers; and it consists ofcertain improvements which are fully set forth in the followingspecification and shown in the accompanying drawings, which form a partthereof.

My invention has for its object the construction of an egg-case fillerof cardboard or similar material which shall be cheaply made in acondensed condition and which may be stretched out and form asubstantially square or rectangular frame to produce a series ofconnected compartments of special shape,into which the eggs may beplaced and packed for Shipment.

In carrying out my invention I form the ller of a series of superimposedstrips of cardboard scored or weakened at intervals to insure bending atthe proper places and in the proper directions, said series of cardboardstrips being cemented or fastened at inter- Vals in such a manner thatwhen the completed structure is stretched out the said strips ofcardboard bend in such forms as to constitute a substantially square orrectangular cellular structure formed with a series of parallel rows ofoctagonal tubular compartments separated by the series of rows oftubular chambers having polygonal outlines of sub stantially rectangularform, with the two opposite sides thereof bent outward, forming apolygon of ten sides. This construction is such that the eggs aresupported in the best possible manner to be shielded against breakage.In these compartments having the heX- agonal construction the egg issupported in the case of those having the ten sides the egg is supportedat six points; but the points of support between the eggs of twoadjacent rows diagonally considered are out of aliuement, so as toreduce the possibility of breakage by direct pressure of one egg uponthe other.

My invention will be better understood by reference to the drawings, inwhich- Serial No. 21.030. (No model-l Figure 1 is a plan view of anegg-case filler embodyingmyimprovements. Fig.2isanend elevation of same.Fig. 3 is a plan view of the filler when collapsed. Fig. ais anyelevation of one of the strips of cardboard from which the fillerismade. Fig. 5 is an edge View thereof. Fig. 6 is an enlarged View of aportion of Fig. l. Fig. 7 is aplan view ot'a modifled form of myinvention, and Fig. S is an edge View of the cardboard employed in Fig.7 for `one of the sections before being used in the process of completeconstruction.

The filler is designed to hold forty-two eggs7 though the capacity mayoe increased or diminished to suit the desire of the manufacturer.Forty-two eggs, however, enable the case to be made square, and hence isthe pre ferred number. rlhe liller is composed of a series of strips ofpasteboard or other soft or iexible material connected in pairs, saidstrips being indicated at A Bin Fig. 3. These strips are scored orweakened transversely at points C C at on-e side and at D D on the otherside;` They are united together by being pasted at intervals (indicatedat ef) to connect, respectively, the parts marked E F. When this is doneandthe two sides are spread apart, an octagonal-shaped compartment willbe produced. Such a pair of cardboard. strips will produce fouroctagonal compartments or chambers connected by three walls F, madetwo-ply. A similar second pair of strips are arranged alongside of thefirst pair, and the two pairs are connected by having their walls I ofthe adjacent hexagonal compartments cemented or fastened at t'. Thiswill produce in the completed structure eight octagonal compartments Hand four polygonal com partments K, having irregular outlines composedof ten sides. By connecting siX of such pairs of strips together in thesame manner and applying a single strip to the outside of theconstruction so formed we will have the construction illustrated in Fig.l, comprising a filler of forty-two compartments, in which there aretwenty-four hexagonatshaped compartments and eighteen of the otherpolygonal structures.

In Fig. 5 the manner of scoring or weakening the cardboard is indicatedat the points cent strip to which it is to be united.

Referring to Fig. 6, the dotted circles indicate the eggs, and it willbe seen that the eggs in compartments K are kept considerably separatedfrom the eggs in compartment H by virtue of the fact that the egg incompartment K is received upon the corners 7c of the cardboard, whilethe eggs in compartments H are supported bythe cardboard walls at hconsiderably to one side of or out of alinement with the corner 7c. Inthis manner there is considerable cushioning or elastic support, whichgreatly increases the safety of the transmission of the crated eggs. Inthose cases where the eggs are in two adjacent compartments I-I H andtwo adjacent compartments K K they are separated by walls of pasteboardof double thickness and are therefore in this manner protected againstbreakage. Any thrust of the eggs on the walls of theirsupporting-coinpartments which are not in a direct line from compartmentH to compartment H or compartment K to compartment K will be more orless received by the elastic supporting-points 7o and h, which willreduce very largely the possibility ot' breakage even under the mostdisadvantageous conditions. l'

It will be seen from an examination of Fig. l. that the completed llerwhen stretched out is composed of a series oi' transverse cardboardstrips united together at intervals in their length and produce therebya series of rows of hexagonal-shaped 'compartments H, separated by aseries of rows of polygonalshaped compartments having ten sides andproducing the oppositely-directed corners 7c, pointing toward theinterior of said ten-sided polygon compartments to directly support theeggs therein, the rows formed by the similar adjacent compartments beingarranged at right angles to the length of the cardboard strips composingthem.

In this construction the two strips A B when united and bent into shapeconstitute a section which will comprise a number of heX- agonalcompartments connected by straight parts. When a number of thesesections are connected, they produce the structure illustrated in'Fig.l.

In place of using two cardboard strips AB in pairs in building up thefiller I may employ a series of longer cardboard strips, each foldedover upon-itself and pasted together atintervals. condition is indicatedin Fig. 8, and the hexagonal construction produced thereby isillustrated in Fig. 7, the compartments H and K in this instance beingthe saine as the correspending compartments in the construction shown inFig. 1.

I. do not conne myself to the particular length or manner of connectingthe strips employed to form the cellular structure so long as astructure of the character illustrated in Fig. l is produced. Thereforewhile I prefer the manner of building up the structure herein set out Ido not conne myself to the minor details thereof.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

l. An egg-.case ller formed of flexible material such as cardboard,comprising a series of strips cemented at intervals in their lengthweakened at intervals on both sides and bent transversely to theirlength to form a series of rows of clearly-defined octagonalcompartments, and a series of interposed rows of clearlydefinedpolygonalshaped compartments having ten flat sides andinwardlyprojecting clearly-defined corners k as shown.

2. An egg-case filler consisting of a series of sections unitedtogether, each section being composed of a series of octagonalcompartments connected together by spacingstrips and forming betweenthem series of polygonal-shaped compartments having their side wallsprovided with inwardly-projecting corners diagonally arranged.

3. An egg-case filler consisting of a series of sections unitedtogether, each section being composed of a series of octagonalcompartments connected together by spacingstrips, and forming betweenthe octagonal compartments of two adjacent sections polygonalcompartments each having four inwardly-projecting corners 7a formed atweakened portions of the strips and in which the distances between thecorners diagonally measured are substantially equal.

t. An egg-case filler consisting of a series of sections formingoctagonal compartments united together, each section consisting of twostrips of flexible material superimposed and united together at theextreme ends and at intervals in the length between the ends on sides ofthe octagonal and in which the strips between the united parts arescored or weakened in opposite directions so that they may be separatedor opened and bent outwardly at said parts to constitute octagonalshapedcompartments with clearly-defined outward free corners and formingbetween them a series of polygonal-shaped compartments having their sidewalls provided with Such a cardboard strip in folded,

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inwardly-projecting corners diagonally ar- In testimony of whichinvention l have heren nto set my hand.

WM. HENRY HANSELL.

Witnesses;

R. M. HUNTER, R. M. KELLY.

